Connecticut western news., 1887-05-11
HAWAII'S QUEEN.
HER MAJESTY VISITS MOUNT VERNON WITH HER SUITE.
A State Dinner at the White House in the Evening-The Guests and the Toilets

The excursion in honor of Queen Kapiolani to Mount Vernon and return, on the United States steamer Dispatch, was in all its appoint ments one of the finest entertainments of the kind ever given at Washington. The Queen, the Princess, Colonel Boyd and others of the royal suite, except General Dominis, who was not we'll enough to go, started from the hotel in the morning, escorted by Mir. Brown, Lieu tenant Rogers and Captain Taylor, and were driven to the Navy Yard before ten o'clock. There salute was fired in their honor. The Ma rine Corps, consisting of twenty men was drawn up in martial array to salute the Queen. Con- modore Harmony, representing the secretary of the Navy, received them, ana tne Marine Band played the Hawaiian national hymn, which, the bandmaster said, was sweeter than Sandwich Island sugar. The steamer started at ten o'clock, the naval vessels passed by it at the Navy Yard being all manned and saluting the Dispatch as the royal party were carried along the eastern branch to the Potomac
 Upon the return of the party dinner was rendered the Queen and her suite They as- sembled in the East Room, where the Presi- dent and Mrs. Cleveland and Secretary Bayard received them.
 When it was time to go to dinner the com- pany walked from the East Room through the corridor to the dining room in this order:- The President and the Queen Kapiolani, the Chief Justice and the Princess Lilinokalina, the Hawaiian Minister and Mrs. Cleveland, the Secretary of State and Mrs. Carter, Lieutenant General Dominis and Mrs. Waite, the Dean of the Diplomatic Corps and Mrs. Fairchild, the Seer etary of the Treasury and Mrs. Endicott, the Secretary of War and Mrs. Whitney, the Secretary of the Navy and Mrs. Villas, the Post master General and Mrs. Sherman, the chair man of the Senate Committee on Foreign Re- lations and Mrs. Sheridan, the Lieutenant General and Miss Porter, the Admiral and Mrs. Lincklaen, MT. Iankea and Miss Garter, Colonel Boyd and Miss Bancroft, MT. Winthrop and Mrs. Laughton, MT. Bancroft and Mrs Winthrop.
 The heat of the evening seemed to impress the ladies with desire to look cool, even ii they did not feel so, for a majority of them wore white toilets of diaphanous material. Mrs. Cleveland, the Queen the Princess, Mrs Fairchild, Mrs. Sheriden, Miss Porter anc others wore white gowns.
 That of the Queen was of the finest Chinese crape, and was embroidered to order in Japal in gold thread and colors, the design being s Japanese flower.
 Mrs. Cleveland wore her wedding robe o white satin, with very long train, trimmed with point lace Her ornaments were dia monds.
 Mrs. Carter wore pale amber colored satin trimmed with lace.
 Mrs. Waite wore rich golden brown satin trimmed with fine lace and passementerie. Mrs. Endicott wore rose cOlored satin an( brocade, garnished with black lace. Mrs. Villas gown was pale heliotrope, witl network of lace.
 Mrs. Laughton had an apple green and whit striped moire, with tabliere of black Brussel lace. : Mrs. Robert c. Winthrop wore crimson satil beneath fine black lace.